Gingerbread Brown Christmas Spiced Ale Special

Have struggled how to rate this one. The recipe was easy to follow and the beer came out nice. The body was a little light for my taste and the spices made it like any other spiced beer. Thinking these reasons are mostly my tastes and liking, if you like spiced beer go for this one.

This beer had a very good balance. The spices were appropriate and not over the top. Easy beer to brew.

This was my first holiday beer I have made. This is a great tasting beer. Not too sweet. Will make it again.

I rarely brew beers like this, but wow, this is great. I will brew this again next Christmas if not before.

I made to have on hand for Thanksgiving weekend. I kegged and let it sit for 1 week - the taste was a bit strong. Let it sit another week in keg and it really mellowed. Great price, this is a nice brew. I would do again next year for the fall. The price/ ease of making/ & taste - I give 5 stars with all of these things combined - $20 for 5 Gallon.

Just stocked up on 2 batches of this stuff. My wifes favorite batch so far. Crowd pleaser for Christmas parties.

I had yet to find a beer with ginger in it that was good. From pumpkin beers to holiday beers to ginger lemon all were just OK. I saw this extract kit was on sale for 20.00 and decided to try it. Well I was very impressed, it tastes great, just like gingerbread.

This was the first "Spiced" ale I've made. I made a mistake and didn't put the spices in the last 5 minutes of boil, so I put them in during primary. Well, perhaps it is CRUCIAL to make sure the spices get boiled, because the flavor of my brew is shot. Very gross. Every other reviewer seems to like it, so I assume if you make this the right way its not so bad. Kinda hard for me to give a rating since I messed it up, but I'll give 4 stars since the body is a bit lacking too. Other reviewer said to add some extra malt extract, I agree. It's a bit light for an ale style that normally calls for a heavier body.

This Beer kit makes a nice Beer it has a nice smell and is very smooth to drink. Would recommend this Beer for a good Holiday Beer.

Really nice base recipe, makes for a really great winter warmer with an addition of 3# of Rye LME. Nice and spicy, and brings the abv up to the level to warm you up on a cold night.

I'm giving this a 5 star because it's a simple recipe and it's expandable. While I would have like it's to have a stronger alcohol content, that would have made it more expensive. I boosted it by adding 6 oz of dark brown sugar, boiled in a little water, to secondary. 3 weeks after bottling, beer tastes great. The smell of gingerbread is stronger than the taste, but it's still fantastic. Word of advice, do not try to add more gingerbread seasoning unless you know what you're doing. Extra clove can taste really...odd. Cinnamon, clove, allspice, etc...you don't need much of these to get a great taste, and this kit comes with a perfect mix of them.

I like the recipe overall, but will be adding 8oz of Crystal 60L to see if I can beef up the body a little. I'll also try the gingerbread spice cold side instead of flashout maybe in the secondary (which is unnecessary for color, because it's stellar).